Lago Film Fest 2020, The Woodstock Of Short Films Wants You

From 24 July to 1 August, Revine Lago is taken over by Italy's biggest short films party: the call is open

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Nine days of screenings, premieres, events, concerts, workshops, artistic performances and meetings. This year (from 24 July to 1 August, 2020) marks the sixteenth edition of Lago Film Fest, the International Festival of Independent Cinema. There is nothing to do: Lago with its programme confirms as a an absolute godsend for fans of short and…

Angie Rowntree, the Rebel of Feminist Porn: “Pleasure Empowers Us, It Humanizes Us”

We met the founder of Sssh.com, who tells us her way to represent sexuality and her last two films.

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Continuing our journey into the world of feminist porn and its short films. This time our coverage of sexuality representation far from the mainstream shores gets us onto Sssh.com, the oldest feminist porn site on the web having started in 1999. Founder and director Angie Rowntree has spoken at SXSW with Shine Louise Houston (CrashPad…

Guilt – by Moisés Aisemberg

"Dulce Doror" director offers us a short film about sexual impulses in adolescence and child abuse

15 – 20 | 2018 | Childhood | Drama | Live-Action | Mexico

Moisés Aisemberg was able to make Guilt (La culpa), a short film about sexual impulses in adolescence, repression and child abuse, a meager, precise, and very tough film, like a documentary. Author of Dulce Dolor, an intriguing short about the need to be honest with oneself, the Mexican helmer directs another rigorous and incisive short,…

Online Premiere: Child Love by Giulio Donato

A kid courts a girl with small gestures, but it is a love that goes beyond space-time and becomes an allegory of the cycle of life

10 – 15 | 2017 | Dramedy | Italy | Live-Action | Love

At a summer camp all the kids behave in a strange way, very little actively. A boy falls in love with a girl and courts her with small gestures. After a run towards her, the kid feels sick and falls to the ground. Then we find out, travelling through all the scene again, that the…

A Guide to Feminist Porn in 15 Short Films

If you are curious about what feminist porn exactly is and how it works but you have no idea where to start, here is a small guide in 15 short films

“The answer to bad porn isn’t no porn – it’s to try and make better porn,” Annie Sprinkle said. Even better if it’s feminist porn, which is to seek beauty, realism and sex positivity in porn and to care about the performer’s welfare. There are so many women who struggle with the idea of porn…